Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 5 NURSE Mistress! What, mistress! Juliet!— Fast , I warrant her , she.— 4.5.1 fast asleep, bet Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slugabed! Why, love, I say! Madam! Sweetheart! Why, bride! What, not a word? You take your pennyworths now; little rest 4.5.5 Sleep for a week, for the next night, I warrant, The County Paris hath set up his rest is determined That you shall rest but little ! God forgive me, not to let you rest Marry, and amen.—How sound is she asleep! 4.5.10 I must needs wake her.—Madam, madam, madam! Ay, let the County take you in your bed! He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be? startle [opens the bed curtains] What, dressed? And in your clothes? And down again? 4.5.15 I must needs wake you. Lady! Lady! Lady!— Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's dead! O, weraday that ever I was born!— Some aqua vitae , ho! My lord! My lady! LADY CAPULET [enters] woe the day brandy 4.5.20 What noise is here? NURSE O lamentable day! LADY CAPULET mournful 4.5.21 4.5.22 What is the matter? NURSE Look, look! O heavy day! LADY CAPULET gloomy 4.5.23 4.5.24 O me, O me! My child, my only life! Revive , look up, or I will die with thee! wake up Help, help! Call help! CAPULET [enters] For shame, bring Juliet forth ! Her lord is come . NURSE She's dead, deceased! She's dead! Alack the day! 4.5.27 out here, groom is here 4.5.28 Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 5 LADY CAPULET 4.5.29 Alack the day! she's dead, she's dead, she's dead! CAPULET 4.5.30 Ha ? Let me see her. Out, alas! She's cold! Her blood is settled , and her joints are stiff! what (not laughing) not flowing Life and these lips have long been separated! Death lies on her like an untimely frost unseasonably late Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. NURSE 4.5.35 O lamentable day! LADY CAPULET O woeful time! 4.5.36 CAPULET 4.5.37 Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, taken her away Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. [ FRIAR , PARIS & MUSICIAN S enter] FRIAR 4.5.39 Come, is the bride ready to go to church? CAPULET 4.5.40 Ready to go, but never to return.— O son ! The night before thy wedding day Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my soninlaw; Death is my heir. soninlaw slept beautiful, her virginity taken 4.5.44 My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all : life, living , all is Death's. PARIS everything, property 4.5.47 1 Have I thought long to see this morning's face, looked forward And doth it give me such a sight as this? LADY CAPULET [all speak together] Accursed , unhappy , wretched, hateful day! Most miserable hour that e'er time saw In lasting labor of his pilgrimage! But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, 4.5.49 cursed, disastrous Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 5 But one thing to rejoice and solace in, take comfort And cruel death hath catched it from my sight! snatched her NURSE [together] 4.5.55 O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day! Most lamentable day, most woeful day, mournful That ever, ever, I did yet behold! O day, O day, O day! O hateful day! Never was seen so black a day as this! O woeful day, O woeful day! PARIS [together] Beguiled , divorcèd, wrongèd, spited, slain! 4.5.61 cheated Most detestable death, by thee beguiled, By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown! O love! O life! Not life , but love in death! CAPULET [together] alive, but still loved 4.5.65 Despised, distressèd, hated, martyred, killed! Uncomfortable time, why came'st thou now To murder, murder our solemnity ? comfortless festivity O child, O child! My soul, and not my child, Dead art thou! Alack, my child is dead, And with my child my joys are burièd. FRIAR + Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions . Heaven and yourself Had part in this fair maid. Now heav'n hath all , 4.5.71 2 there's no cure for loss / care crying and wailing both had part, all of her And all the better is it for the maid. Your part in her you could not keep from death, 4.5.75 But heaven keeps his part in eternal life. The most you sought was her promotion , For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced . + And weep you now, seeing she is advanced Above the clouds, as high as heav'n itself? O, in this love you love your child so ill wanted, material advancement ideal that, marry well 2 ye 4.5.80 material concern, wrongly Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 5 That you run mad, seeing that she is well . she's in heaven (an expression) She's not well married that lives married long, But she's best married that dies married young. Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary 4.5.84 place, herb for funerals & On this fair corse , and as the custom is, weddings, corpse In all her best array , bear her to church. clothes, carry + For though fond nature bids us all lament , Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment . CAPULET All things that we ordainèd festival , Turn from their office to black funeral: 2 our emotional nature / some , to cry mocked by reason 4.5.90 intended for the wedding feast purpose Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, food & drink Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, funeral music Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse , corpse And all things change them to the contrary . opposite FRIAR 4.5.97 Sir, go you in, and, madam, go with him, And go, Sir Paris. Everyone prepare To follow this fair corse unto her grave. The heav'ns do lour upon you for some ill . Move them no more by crossing their high will . corpse frown, bad thing you've done anger, provoking them
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